[CentOS] Re: kdewebdev aka Quanta or

[Karanbir Singh]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 08:52 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Lamar Owen wrote:
>>
>>>>does this exist for CentOS 4 ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, the EL4 repository works fine on CentOS4.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for
>>>>S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen.
>>>
>>>
>>>>It's an aggressive update to be sure.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, it is.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and
>>>>openoffice.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and
>>>>their updates installed?
>>>
>>>
>>>I use it daily on multiple machines; I have a twin need for the stability
>>>of CentOS (update-wise) on one hand, but the features of the later Kstars
>>>(part of the 'edutainment' kdeedu package) on the other.  Kstars for KDE
>>>3.4 and above has telescope control; see my .sig for why that might be
>>>important to me.
>>>
>>>The 3.5 update didn't really break much.  However, you will have
>>>difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with
>>>the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security
>>>context) and that hangs kdesu hard 
>>
>>Ack.  I'll have to look into that.
>>
>>
>>
>>>KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old
>>>machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB
>>>RAM for sure.  On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its
>>>apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on
>>>some tasks.
>>
>>Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively 
>>faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
> 
> ----
> I've been unable to install anything lacking the public key for the
> repo.
> 
> I tried (from kde-redhat.sourceforge.net)
> 
> # rpm -ivh
> http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
> Retrieving
> http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
> Retrieving http://kde-redhat.sf.net/
> error: skipping http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ - transfer failed - Unknown or
> unexpected error

rpm --import the gpg key, not install it.


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